Located in Chile’s Atacama Desert lies the highest motorable ... close to the Argentinian border, this road traverses a desolate, high-altitude environment marked by loose gravel, sharp inclines ...

The hotel’s location a few minutes away from the center of San Pedro de Atacama gives guests the best of both worlds—a feeling of seclusion with unobstructed mountain views and easy access to ...

The town of San Pedro de Atacama sits at almost 8,000 feet above sea level, which is partially why it’s so dry. Other visitable parts of the desert go up to 17,000 feet — the same altitude as ...

There is no better place to gaze upon that interstellar history than the Altiplano of northern Chile's Atacama Desert. It's blessed with high altitude ... We traveled by mountain bike into the ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located north of Santiago, Chile, in the Atacama Desert, is an international astronomy facility that uses high-precision ... rooms with mountain and volcano ...

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...

A short drive down the mountain ... I was soon to find out that this desert can be hellish, too. Despite the harsh conditions, the Atacama Desert’s high-altitude lakes sustain a variety of ...

Tierra Atacama just reopened in the Chilean high-altitude desert. Travel + Leisure was ... and an outdoor pool and hot tub with mountain views. The hotel’s location a few minutes away from ...